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Land, Investment & Politics - Reconfiguring Eastern Africa's Pastoral Drylands (Hardcover)
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Land, Investment & Politics - Reconfiguring Eastern Africa's Pastoral Drylands (Hardcover)
Series: African Issues
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Examines the new challenges facing Africa's pastoral drylands from
large-scale investments and how this might affect the economic and
political landscape for the regions affected and their peoples.
More than ever before, the gaze of global investment has been
directed to the drylands of Africa, but what does this mean for
these regions' pastoralists and other livestock-keepers and their
livelihoods? Will those who have occupied drylands over generations
benefit from the developments, as claimed, or is this a new type of
territorialisation, exacerbating social inequality? This book's
detailed local studies of investments at various stages of
development - from Kenya, Tanzania, Somaliland, Ethiopia - explore,
for the first time, how large land, resource and infrastructure
projects shape local politics and livelihoods. Land and resources
use, based on ancestral precedenceand communal practices, and
embedded regional systems of trade, are unique to these areas, yet
these lands are now seen as the new frontier for development of
national wealth. By examining the ways in which large-scale
investmentsenmesh with local political and social relations, the
chapters show how even the most elaborate plans of financiers,
contractors and national governments come unstuck and are re-made
in the guise of not only states' grand modernist visions, but also
those of herders and small-town entrepreneurs in the pastoral
drylands. The contributors also demonstrate how and why large-scale
investments have advanced in a more piecemeal way as the challenges
of implementation have mounted. JEREMY LIND is Research Fellow at
the Institute of Development Studies (IDS), University of Sussex.
DORIS OKENWA holds a PhD in Anthropology from the London School of
Economics. IAN SCOONES is a Professorial Fellow at the IDS,
University of Sussex and co-director of the ESRC STEPS Centre.
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